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Harker, Jennifer L.

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“…When kategoria is addressed, it is in light of the response rather than as a discrete rhetorical act. Butterworth (2008), Grano (2014), Harker (2018), and Kruse (1981a) all reference kategoria obliquely by referencing the underlying values that incite accusation but do not consider the utility it holds for the accuser.…”

Section: Sports Kategoria and Ownershipmentioning

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Fans not Customers! Kategoria in the Rise and Demise of the European Super League

Milford

2022

Communication & Sport

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In 2021, the twelve largest soccer clubs in the world created a new league that promised high-level competition between the sports’ elites. Three days later, the Euro Super League was no more. Much of the credit for its demise is attributable to the various groups who spoke out strongly against the organization. The collective rhetoric took on the qualities of kategoria, a speech of accusation that proceeds apologia. While there is a wealth of research on apologia, there is little on kategoria as a discrete rhetorical act. Kategoria sits at the intersection of community and morality. Rhetors position themselves above the accused and utilize the community’s collective identity to streamline the complexities of contemporary sports into simpler moral issues. In the case of the Super League, an analysis of the six English Premier League clubs and their supporters clubs shows this principle at work. The supporters secured a place of moral authority and charged the owners with ethical failure. They asserted that the owners were out of touch with the spirit of English soccer due to their single-minded greed.

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Section: Sports Kategoria and Ownershipmentioning

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Fans not Customers! Kategoria in the Rise and Demise of the European Super League

Milford

2022

Communication & Sport

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“…The history of sport crisis literature reflects these sources of transgressions, and sport crisis scholarship has focused most on the rhetorical self-defense of the offender. Other areas of sport crisis communication research have focused on organizational-level crises (Benoit, 2015;Coombs, 1998Coombs, , 2014Fortunato, 2008), individual-level crises (Benoit & Hanczor, 1994;Brazeal, 2008), fans' social media use as reaction and response to crisis (Brown & Billings, 2013), apologetic rhetoric in response to crisis (Benoit & Hanczor, 1994;Harker, 2017;Kruse, 1981), and new media (Sanderson, 2013;Sanderson & Hambrick, 2012). To extend this list, the current research focuses on how NFL stakeholders perceive sport crisis, whether those perceptions are informed by identification, and in what ways sports fans communicate perceptions throughout their social networks.…”

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Let’s Talk Sports: An Egocentric Discussion Network Analysis Regarding NFL Crisis Perceptions

Harker

2019

Communication & Sport

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This egocentric discussion network analysis examines American sports fans’ crisis perceptions regarding four National Football League (NFL) crises. The purpose of this research was to examine how stakeholders’ perceptions of sport-related crises are communicated within the rhetorical arena. This research addresses several lingering questions regarding the influential role of sport identification, fan communication behavior, and social relationships among sports fans in the development of crisis perceptions. The situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) model is extended by applying it to sport crisis and the network perspective. In sum, this sport crisis egocentric discussion network, driven by functional specificity hypothesis, enabled an in-depth investigation into network selection, activation, and influence regarding sports fans’ crisis perceptions, and the significance of identification and the discordant communication exchanged within a sports fan’s personal network.

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Three Decades of Sport‐Related Crisis Communication

Harker¹

2022

The Handbook of Crisis Communication

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Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Fans not Customers! Kategoria in the Rise and Demise of the European Super League

Fans not Customers! Kategoria in the Rise and Demise of the European Super League

Let’s Talk Sports: An Egocentric Discussion Network Analysis Regarding NFL Crisis Perceptions

Three Decades of Sport‐Related Crisis Communication

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